Management

FILE - Fireworks explode over Baltimore's Inner Harbor during the Ports America Chesapeake 4th of July Celebration, Thursday, July 4, 2019, in Baltimore. The city of Baltimore is resuming its Independence Day celebrations after a two-year hiatus. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

From costumes to cake, agencies honor Independence Day

A summary of how some federal agencies and the armed forces are celebrated Independence Day

People

(Photo courtesy of the General Services Administration)

The new DHS headquarters, which GSA is managing, includes green roofs, and other green buildings features.
green roofs, green buildings, St Elizabeths, GSA

Federal Sustainability Plan ‘rebuilding’ momentum on green government goals

Facilities/Construction

VP and second gentleman visit fire station in California

Fed Photo of the Day

(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

USPS meets financial health goal, falls short on delivery, CX targets in FY 2021

Agency Oversight

How Health and Human Services is helping with the medical emergency in Ukraine

People

Bob Tobias, professor at the Key Executive Leadership program of American University

Agencies aren’t always capable of investigating their own whistleblower complaints

Agency Oversight

IRS backlog metrics ‘don’t translate’ into workforce efforts, commissioner says

Workforce

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 28, 2012, a security cctv camera is seen by the Olympic Stadium at the Olympic Park in London. The South Wales police deployed facial recognition surveillance equipment on Sunday Jan. 12, 2020, in a test to monitor crowds arriving for a weekend soccer match in real-time, that is prompting public debate about possible aggressive uses of facial recognition in Western democracies, raising questions about human rights and how the technology may enter people's daily lives in the future. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, FILE)

Just how secure are federal buildings?

Federal Newscast

In this photo provided by the Missile Defense Agency, the lead ground-based Interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in a

The military is working on hypersonic weapons, but will it be able to defend against them?

Agency Oversight

FILE - A United States Postal Service employee works outside a post office in Wheeling, Ill., Dec. 3, 2021. Four environmental groups that want the U.S. Postal Service to buy more electric delivery vehicles are suing to halt further purchases. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, April 28, 2022, in federal court in California, asks a judge to order the Postal Service to conduct a more thorough environmental review before moving forward with the next-generation vehicle program. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Supreme Court rejects challenge to higher USPS rates, but regulator review ongoing

Agency Oversight

DoD’s acting IG is in his position unlawfully, GAO finds

Defense

GSA considers how to interconnect systems for new buildings

Today, when system components are now IT components, the risk if greater but interconnectivity can also have preventative measures with cost benefits.

Technology

FILE - This March 27, 2020 file photo shows the signature of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill in Washington. Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Why the National Security Agency overpaid contractors during the height of the pandemic

Remember the CARES Act, enacted at the height of the pandemic? Among other things, it let agencies reimburse contractors to pay employees unable to work…

Agency Oversight

Imagine an award program where people can nominate friends and then vote on whether they get the money

Agency Oversight

The Postal Service handed out millions of dollars in employee awards in a program that lacked solid controls. People nominated one another and then voted on whether they got the money. A few people even approved their own bonuses.

Management

From costumes to cake, agencies honor Independence Day

Federal Sustainability Plan ‘rebuilding’ momentum on green government goals

VP and second gentleman visit fire station in California

USPS meets financial health goal, falls short on delivery, CX targets in FY 2021

How Health and Human Services is helping with the medical emergency in Ukraine

Agencies aren’t always capable of investigating their own whistleblower complaints

IRS backlog metrics ‘don’t translate’ into workforce efforts, commissioner says

Just how secure are federal buildings?

The military is working on hypersonic weapons, but will it be able to defend against them?

Supreme Court rejects challenge to higher USPS rates, but regulator review ongoing

DoD’s acting IG is in his position unlawfully, GAO finds

GSA considers how to interconnect systems for new buildings

Why the National Security Agency overpaid contractors during the height of the pandemic

Imagine an award program where people can nominate friends and then vote on whether they get the money

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